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29 Jun 2014

Jonathan Groff

Photo by Joseph Marzullo/WENN

Tony Award nominee Jonathan Groff, "Orange Is the New Black" actress and activist Laverne Cox and National Gay and Lesbian Task Force executive director Rea Carey are the grand marshals of the 2014 New York City Pride March June 29, which runs from midtown Manhattan to the Stonewall Inn.

"Our 2014 marshals are leaders in brilliant forms of activism through which LGBT people and their allies engage," said Pride March director David Studinski. "Individually, they represent the diversity within the LGBT community and the various struggles our community members have and continue to face. Collectively, their stories reinforce that no voice is too small nor weak to make change in our world - and it starts with being yourself."

Groff, a Tony Award nominee for Spring Awakening, stars in the HBO series "Looking," as well as the film adaptation of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart.

The annual New York City Pride March commemorates the 1969 Stonewall Riots. The Pride March is organized by Heritage of Pride.

The 2014 march, which is themed "We Have Won When We're One," steps off at noon.

The two-mile march route begins in the caverns of Midtown Manhattan at 36th Street and Fifth Avenue. The march proceeds downtown via Fifth Avenue, turning west along 8th Street into the West Village until a sharp turn onto Christopher Street at Sixth Avenue. Marchers continue down Christopher Street, past The Stonewall Inn, until the route disperses at Greenwich Street.